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Jack Edwards has made another far-fetched comparison between an NHLer and terrorism.

The NBC play-by-play man read a soliloquy on WEEI Boston Sports News radio Friday comparing the actions of Boston Bruins forward Gregory Campbell to those who came under fire during the pursuit of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in April and Allied forces in the Second World War.

Campbell earned a spot in Boston Bruins lore when he stayed on the ice to help kill a penalty after breaking his leg on a shot block in Game 3 of the NHL Eastern Conference final Wednesday.

The game went to double-overtime and ended early Thursday morning, the anniversary of D-Day.

“What Gregory Campbell did in Game 3 was heroic and it will stand as an icon of what we love in athletes and in our fellow man,” Edwards said.

“That it came on a night that began with MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) officer Dick Donahue waving a flag should give us perspective. Donahue nearly died in the shootout that began to end April’s reign of terror in Boston, taking instantaneous action in duty, honour and obligation. Only, the shot in the leg he took was not of a figurative bullet, but a real one.”

Donahue was shot in the groin during a shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers that saw Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed the same night and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured the next day.

Edwards later made a link to D-Day. June 6, 1944 was a day when thousands of Allied troops – many of them Canadian – lost their lives as they began a campaign to invade Nazi-controlled Germany.

“Heroism is earned when someone stands in the face of horror when no one could blame him or her for taking cover,” Edwards said. “In Gregory Campbell’s actions we see the legacy of what those incredibly heroic soldiers fought and died for in the safety and comfort of what Dick Donahue and his brothers and sisters in service provide us now. That we can experience such a high by what a hockey player did pays tribute to his values and choices, but much more to those who have given everything so that we have the freedom to feel this way.”

This is not the first time Edwards has made an over-the-top comparison between a hockey player and tragedy.

On April 20, shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings, he compared Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke to assassin Sirhan Sirhan.